Thursday, 3 September 2015

"Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to introduce a minimum
price for alcohol in Scotland has suffered a potentially fatal blow
after the European Court’s most senior legal official ruled it would
infringe the EU’s free trade rules.

Advocate General Yves Bot found that fixing a legal price for alcoholic
beverages could only be justified if the Scottish Government could
prove that alternative means, such as increasing taxation, would not be a
“suitable means of curbing excessive consumption”."